When your first brush with adulthood involves endless consumption and no cost, it gives you the wrong idea of how the world works.
Publication: Wall Street Journal
The USS Lincoln: It Was a Performance for the Ages
By Admiral Brad Cooper: The crew is tired, but they continue to fire on all cylinders. History will record this deployment as one of the most operationally intense and consequential of the modern era. Across months of sustained combat operations, the Lincoln team shot down more than 200 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps drones threatening international shipping and U.S. forces.
Karoline Leavitt, the Press Secretary Who Perfected the Art of Defending Trump
The 28-year-old and the president shared a tone and, it seemed at times, a mind.
Seven Steps to Defeat Dems and the DSA
By Karl Rove: Far-left candidates give an opening to the GOP in the midterms. Can they use it wisely?
Don’t Rule Out AOC for President
As Democrats flirt with socialism, she’s a serious candidate.
Francesca Hong, the Socialists’ Next Hope
Forget the tweets. The frontrunner in the Democratic primary for Wisconsin Governor wants a 17% income tax and ‘public groceries.’
Socialism Is Here and It’s Serious
By Peggy Noonan: As religion recedes, politics takes its place. As confidence fades, political movements grow radical.
The March of the El-Sayed Democrats
If Mr. El-Sayed wins the midterm race, he will immediately become a media favorite bent on colonizing the Democratic Party from the socialist left. He has said one of his first tasks will be trying to defeat John Fetterman, the pro-Israel Pennsylvania Democrat who is up for re-election in 2028.
Democratic Socialism Is No Tea Party
It’s far more dangerous to the country. But its appeal is similar to that of the 2009-10 GOP insurgency.
The Smithsonian’s Disdain for America
Americans deserve a National Museum of American History that expresses a love of that history and views it as the wondrous story of a nation conceived in liberty. They don’t deserve a museum that alternates between ignoring and condemning our extraordinary heritage.
Anthony Fauci Unmasks Himself
By Peggy Noonan: His diaries make clear that he saw the pandemic less as a historic emergency than a media opportunity.
Fauci Takes the Fifth, Alas
The pandemic oracle is getting the scrutiny he dodged during Covid.
The Paramount-Warner Merger Could Save Hollywood
By Ari Emanuel: California’s attorney general ignores the reality of competition in the entertainment business.
The Revealing Diaries of Dr. Fauci
Anthony Fauci made himself the public face of pandemic lockdowns in 2020, and now we have a glimpse of what was going on behind his eyes. Newly released diaries paint an unflattering portrait of a self-obsessed and not entirely honest bureaucrat, in contrast to the image of the careful scientist he cultivated in public.
The Saudi Nuclear Deal Invites Disaster
Allowing Riyadh to enrich uranium would open the door to proliferation in the Middle East and beyond.
Will Dems Disavow the DSA Platform?
By Karl Rove: It promises to ‘build a new society from the ground up,’ France tried that in 1792.
Mamdani Can’t Arrest Netanyahu
But he recklessly raises tensions by keeping this batty idea alive.
Maine Democrats Go Left Again
They rally behind Troy Jackson to keep progressives on board after Graham Platner’s crackup.
Democrats Fall for Socialism Again
The party’s rage against Trump strengthens the millennial Jacobins who don’t share its interests.
Mick Jagger Doesn’t Love Us Anymore
Is something wrong with America? The Rolling Stones say so in their new song “Ringing Hollow,” from their 25th studio album, “Foreign Tongues,” released last Friday. Mr. Jagger, sadly, sounds like a leftist American Democrat when he suggests that his love for this country is contingent on current policy.
Lindsey Graham’s Death Is a Loss for Global Freedom
The Senator, who died Saturday, was an influential supporter of Israel, Ukraine and U.S. alliances.
Maine May Get Another Platner
Cowed by the left, the party establishment may get stuck with another hard leftist.
How the Smithsonian Lost America’s Plot
The National Museum of American History offers a one-sided and negative view of the U.S.
Why Did They Cover for Graham Platner?
Democrats want to fall in love with their candidates, and none more so than the supposed common man plucked from obscurity. That was Maine’s Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner—“my kind of man,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren said. But long after the love died and the truth emerged, they defended him. Until now, when they can’t.